Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Some musicians need just the right instruments to create. Colin Andrew Sheffield is not picky that way. If you happen

Seeing, says a cliché from another century, is believing. If you saw Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran perform, you’d know

Titles are often clues to an artist’s intentions, but Words Were Coming Out Our Ears may be more of a

Trust a man whose ideal compositional form is the palindrome to reckon with this axiom: Everything comes back to where

Matters of hierarchy often come to the fore when composers and classical ensembles represent themselves on an album cover. Who’s

Eli Winter is Chicagoan by choice, and you know what they say about the seriousness of converts. The guitarist moved

Bill Orcutt’s Music For Four Guitars is a bit like a favorite dish. It tasted great the first time, delicious

The last time that MAGNET checked in on Scottish singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts, surveying the stylistic zigzags of his last few

About a month ago, producer/author Joe Boyd came to Chicago to promote his new book. And The Roots Of Rhythm

If you die with unfinished business, there’s a good chance that means you were living right up to the end.

In 1982, the Ex named its second album History Is What’s Happening. Four and a half decades since the band’s

Dylan Golden Aycock is generally identified as a guitarist, and with good reason. He’s an Imaginational Anthem alumnus, and while

Aficionados of dreamy, jangly guitar, particularly if it reminds old heads of the “college rock” of yore—like early R.E.M. or

Bone Bells is the third recording by Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and American guitarist Mary Halvorson. By dint of a